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The Secret 

of Life, Death 

and Immortality 



A Startling Proposition, With 
a Chapter Devoted to Mental 
Therapeutics and Instructions 
for Self Healing -:- -:- 



By 

HENRY FLEETWOOD 

Jluthor of 
"MUSIC AS A CURE" 



Published by Henry Fleetwood 

Los Angeles 

1909 



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Copyrighted by 

HENRY FLEETWOOD 

Dec. 3, 1908 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 

Life 



Cosmic Evolution; Life Germs — how pro- 
duced; "The Word" — evolution of; Universal 
Vibration — the only Immortality; Continuous 
Evolution — the condition of creation. 

CHAPTER II 

Electricity and Life 

Proof that Electricity is Life ; recent discov- 
eries in the wireless telegraph and telephone, 
telepathy, etc, — how they effect the human 
race; other possibilities of Electricity. 

CHAPTER III 
Love and Music 

Their relation to Life; their effect on crea- 
tion; the power of love; the power of music; 
all emotion subject to these powers. 

CHAPTER IV 

Immortality 

There cannot be conscious immortality; 
what is immortality?; why we hope for con- 
sciousness in a future life; how the ancients 
regarded a future life. 



6 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

CHAPTER V 

The Sun 

Its relation to life; what is radiant energy?; 
why the ancients worshipped the sun; the 
Parsees the present sun worshippers. 

CHAPTER VI 

Fear 

The great curse of the Universe — the only 
devil — its insidious claims — its effect on life. 

CHAPTTER VII 

Death 

Its relation to Life; the only Immortal; its 
loving purpose; its relation to evolution. 

CHAPTER VIII 

Healing 

Mental Therapeutics, or healing sugges- 
tions; Christian Science; Faith healing, etc. 

CHAPTER IX 

Resume and Conclusion. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 

PREFACE 



The writer of these pages a few years ago 
invented, patented and successfully demon- 
strated in the city of Los Angeles, California, 
a mechanical device by which he transformed 
musical vibrations into "electrical" waves. 
These when conveyed to the human organism 
were found to be harmonizing, vitalizing, and 
curative, in many nervous and functional dis- 
orders. Further study and research along 
these lines convinced him that all vibration, 
or motion, or activity is electrical. That all 
phenomena are electrical phenomena. In fact, 
that there is but one substance in the universe, 
and that is— -Electricity. 

Without any attempt to enter the realm of 
metaphysics, the writer desires to state that 
he uses the term Life in its absolute or uni- 
versal sense, and not in the conditioned or lim- 
ited sense in which it is ordinarily and loosely 
used. He distinguishes between Life — with 
its eternal, inherent unceasing impulse and 
energy — and the resultant of that impulse and 
energy; whether that resultant be a molecule 
of hydrogen or what is called consciousness, 
intelligence, manifesting through an organism 
called man. 

This Life is not mind, nor its product mat- 
ter. It is Substance — and that substance the 



8 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

writer calls electricity. It is eternal. It is 
the totality of what is, or Be-ing. It has a 
dual impulse or tendency, viz. (the positive 
and negative) — attraction and repulsion of its 
infinite integral constituent particles or 
ELECTRONS. This attraction and repul- 
sion, this breaking and closing of the circuit, 
this vibration or motion — always in a straight 
line or a circle — this infinite eternal polarity, 
being continuous creation or evolution, and 
destruction or devolution. 

It has not been possible in the limited space 
devoted to this book to attempt a discussion 
and proof of the statements made herein. 
While the statements made are scientific and 
rational the writer could not do more than 
point out through them the direction in which 
the truth is to be sought and found. 

The reader will find many thoughts sug- 
gested along the line of the wireless telegraph 
and telephone, musical vibrations, thought vi- 
brations, telepathy, clairvoyance, "Spiritual- 
istic phenomena," death, post-mortem con- 
sciousness or "Conscious immortality/' etc. 

We are living in an age of scientific investi- 
gation and inquiry. The human mind is 
awakening to the necessity of doing its own 
thinking instead of being bound by the many 
dogmas of religious systems. 

Laden with ability to annihilate superstition, 
and forever destroy that curse of humanity — 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 9 

Fear — in all who will carefully and with an 
open mind read them, these pages are set 
adrift. 

HENRY FLEETWOOD, 

Los Angeles, California. 
September, 1908. 



10 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

CHAPTER I 
Life 

Cosmic Evolution. Life Germs — How Pro- 
duced. "The Word"— Evolution of. 
Thought Vibration the Only Immortality. 
"Life" and "Death" Evolved from the Same 
Cosmic Substance. 

"But words are things, and a small drop of 
ink falling like dew upon a thought, produces 
that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, 
think." — Byron. 

Electricity is the one, eternal, unchangeable, 
indestructible, universal substance. 

The universe is made up of innumerable 
"corpuscles," from whose manifold combina- 
tions, ruled by unalterable affinities, has been 
evolved our solar system. 

Our earth after the cooling process, became 
through the light and radiant energy of the 
sun, the theater of the evolution of the various 
forms of life. The eternal, inherent, restless 
energy that had formed and launched into ex- 
istence this solar system continued its work 
to evolve conscious life on this earth. Monad, 
atom, protoplasm, molecule and cell all being 
produced by this electric energy we call life. 

This universal substance is constituted of 
electrons — infinitesimally smaller than atomic 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 11 

dust — each electron having the potentiality of 
the whole, with its positive and negative im- 
pulse. 

It is well known that each molecule is a 
separate and distinct organism, formed by this 
same electric impulse. The active force in 
evolution being the electric energy — attraction 
and repulsion — its movements can be easily 
followed by noting the similarity of its forma- 
tion, namely, circular or spherical. The ten- 
dency of this electric energy is always to form 
a complete circuit — and must do so in order to 
evolve and carry on its work of evolution; all 
creation being the result of the breaking and 
closing of the circuit. The various forms of 
life evolved, are subject to this same restless 
impulse — positive and negative — which con- 
tinues the work of creation or evolution. 

As what is called "life" is the result of the 
closing of the circuit, so what is called "death" 
is the result of the breaking of the circuit. 
Thus we see that life and death are one and 
the same process. Simply the readjustment, 
rearrangement of these infinite electrons by the 
opening and closing of the electric circuit. 
The same eternal, inherent, restless energy for- 
ever at play — creating life, and creating death 
— both equally beautiful. This is the contin- 
uous evolution of Darwin and others. There 
is no rest. There is only eternal continu- 
ous vibration. Prof. Loeb says, "The force 



12 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

that makes life possible is primarily the elec- 
tric charge." Dr. Samuel Wallian says, "Life 
originates in vibration and consists of an inces- 
sant repetition of vibrations." It can with equal 
truth be said that THE FORCE THAT 
MAKES DEATH POSSIBLE IS PRIMAR- 
ILY THE ELECTRIC CHARGE; AND 
DEATH ORIGINATES IN VIBRATION, 
AND CONSISTS OF AN INCESSANT 
REPETITION OF VIBRATIONS— or open- 
ing and closing of an electric circuit. These 
are the only Two IMMORTALS— Life and 
Death. 

Primitive man having his habitation mainly 
in the primeval forest, the shadows cast by the 
sun became objects of terror to him. The 
caves with their mysteries begot gnomes and 
hobgoblins. Thus was born that great curse 
of humanity — Fear. Feeling the need of pro- 
tection from these bogies of his imagination, 
he peopled his world with fairies, etc., that 
would help him to overcome the evil of these 
fancied cave and forest shadow-folk. Here 
we have the origin of good and evil, rewards 
and punishments, out of which has been 
evolved the various systems of religion. Ob- 
serving the various phenomena of this uni- 
versal force, he called it God; made images to 
express his ideas and worshipped them. 

Man's evolution in the universe of thought 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 13 

has been slow, handicapped as he has been 
by superstition, traditional folk-lore and lack 
of individual search for truth. But now for the 
past fifty years there has prevailed a set of 
thought vibrations — a so-called "New 
Thought" wave — that has impelled to a desire 
for the truth that shall make one free. 

There is no mystery in nature. She works 
under the immutable laws of her eternal being 
— Electricity. When primitive man evolved 
on this earth he was at first without speech, 
his only language being guttural sounds and 
gestures, some of which are distinctly discern- 
ible in many of the present races of mankind. 
From these guttural sounds speech was 
evolved and the "word" was born. "In the 
beginning was the word and the word was 
with God and the word was God." 

The brain cells of man — the ego — the be- 
ginning or birth of understanding — sent forth 
vibrations called "thought" into the universe; 
and man has been adding to their volume dur- 
ing countless ages. As he progressed he 
learned to write by signs or hieroglyphics, thus 
recording his thoughts. By still further evo- 
lution he constructed an alphabet and finally a 
printing press, so that now thoughts can be 
easily recorded and preserved. 

Sir Humphrey Davy immediately upon re- 
covering from apparent death, caused by one 
of his scientific experiments, exclaimed, "I am 



14 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

convinced that thought is all there is in the 
universe." 

As all man's thoughts, — the vibrations of his 
brain cells — are contained in the universe, 
there must be reservoirs of thought governed 
by the law of natural selection. 

This accounts for what we call genius. For 
example, a child is born showing early a 
genius for music, which enables it to grow in 
the art until it becomes famous. What is the 
explanation? Simply that during the period 
of gestation the mother was environed by mu- 
sical vibrations, so attuning the brain cells of 
the child that communication was established 
with some great reservoir of musical thought 
in the universe, and a genius was evolved. 
This is the so-called "Reincarnation." A per- 
fectly natural law of vibration. 

Creation, we repeat, is but continuous evo- 
lution, bringing forth by natural selection, — 
"everything after its kind" — progressing on- 
ward year by year, developing more improved 
species and greater inventions. Evolution is 
but continuous creation. They are one, even 
as life and death are one. 

Lucretius wrote fifty years B. C, "Change 
is the law of things and is brought about by 
opposing forces." Lucretius did not know that 
these opposing forces were but the attraction 
and repulsion, or positive and negative action 
of the one universal substance, — Electricity. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 15 

The inherent eternal impulse (polarity, or sex) 
of the electrons composing the universal sub- 
stance from which all things are evolved. 
Many of the great scientific writers, such as 
Kant, Darwin, Wallace, Hume, etc., had not 
seen this great light which the discovery and 
investigation of certain electrical phenomena 
has revealed and so could not account for this 
primal force in the universe, which they knew 
existed but could not define. 

Electricity is Life, and cosmic evolution is 
but the law of vibration of its eternal, universal 
being. 

All formations of worlds, planets, suns, stars, 
asteroids, etc., were rotated into form and 
position and continue their movements by this 
same universal law of vibration — the inherent, 
eternal impulse and energy of the one only 
substance — Electricity. Millions of ages have 
been evolved in the cosmos. All are subject 
to what is called decay or death, but, as Lu- 
cretius says, "What is will perish, but only to 
appear in another form." 

All formations of nature in the universe are 
circular or spherical, thus proving their elec- 
tric source or origin, and are but the com- 
pletion of an electric circuit. Every stone, 
grain of sand and drop of water is rotated and 
rounded by this same electric vibratory im- 
pulse. What is true of our solar system, we 
may by deduction conclude is true of other 



16 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

systems, which may have gone through evo- 
lution and devolution many times in the count- 
less aeons of the so called "past." Combus- 
tion, radiant energy, what are these but modes 
of motion? A living, breathing, thinking or- 
ganism called man, or an expiring puppy on 
the sidewalk, are but different modes of vi- 
bration of this one universal substance. From 
worlds to atoms, from atoms to monads, from 
monads to motion, — and we find the universe 
held in a solution of omnipotent, electric en- 
ergy, just as salt is held in solution in the 
ocean. Well may we repeat the modern para- 
phrase — 

Praise law from whom all blessings flow, 
Praise protoplasm here below, 

Praise matter, evolution tossed, 
Praise force, the only Holy Ghost. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 17 

CHAPTER II 

Electricty and Life 

Proof That Electricity Is Life. Recent Dis- 
coveries in the Wireless Telegraph and 
Telephone. Their Effect on the Thought 
of the Race. Other Possibilities of Elec- 
tricity. 

Our little lives are kept in equipose, 
By opposite attractions and desires. 

— Longfellow. 

Recent discoveries in what is called elec- 
trical science, demonstrating the wide range of 
application of electric vibrations and suggest- 
ing almost unlimited possibilities as to its 
future adaptation to the purposes of man- 
kind, indicate that man has at last harnessed 
the primary force or energy of the universe to 
become his willing servant. With the discov- 
ery of the wireless telegraph, and wireless tele- 
phone — by means of which conversation has 
been carried on at a distance of four hundred 
miles — the scientific nature and possibilities of 
telepathy is understood. The principle is the 
same. In the wireless telephone by means of 
two instruments attuned to the same rate of 
vibration two persons widely separated are 
enabled to hear each other's words. In telep- 
athy two persons whose brain cells are attuned 
to the same rate of vibration are enabled to 



18 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

sense each others thoughts, at any distance. 

This is the explanation of impressions of 
impending disaster and death. The so-called 
psychic forces are perfectly natural and there 
is nothing supernatural in the universe. 

A knowledge of the laws of electrical vibra- 
tion is the key that will unlock all the secrets 
of the universe to man. 

All motion, — electrical vibration — is the real 
Book of Life, opened ever to the true student 
of science. Burbank by the study of this book 
of nature has discovered the law of various 
polarities or affinities (natural selection) of 
vegetables, fruits and flowers and has caused 
them to produce new varieties, improving the 
species. 

What is called intelligent purpose is said to 
be manifested by man in this ability to direct 
and assist what is called nature to bring about 
different and "better" (?) conditions. Left to 
herself nature produces chaotic conditions ; 
weeds, brambles, briars and trees crowding 
themselves into various fantastic shapes. 
Lack of intelligent PURPOSE is shown in all 
this and only the "intelligent purpose" dis- 
played by man produces order out of chaos. 
Where then is the intelligent purpose of the 
universe? Certain vibrations in the universe 
cause floods, tornadoes, cyclones, earthquakes, 
etc. These are simply results of natural laws 
of electric energy which in sport, as it were, 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 19 

like a child with his blocks, builds and pulls 
down, builds and pulls down, "creates and de- 
stroys" ad infinitum. Attraction and repul- 
sion, positive and negative electric action — 
vibration — generates, sustains and destroys all 
the manifold forms, organic and inorganic, of 
what is called life and death. There is no 
death. Death is but a name given to one of 
the many forms manifested by life. A knowl- 
edge of the dual nature of electrical impulse is 
the true and only "secret" of life and death. 

In the organic form or entity called man 
there has been evolved an organ called the 
brain; an arrangement of cells whose vibra- 
tory action enables them to receive and give 
off vibrations called thought — intelligence. 
The universe transmits these vibrations 
through the entity attuned to receive them. Or, 
to speak poetically, we say, the universe 
"voices its intelligence through man." And man 
voices his intelligence through the universe. 
Man thus becomes a Lord — a God — and has 
dominion. 

If we accept electricity as the only substance 
and vibration as the vital force and origin of 
all existence, it is impossible to imagine what 
may yet be revealed to us respecting the struc- 
ture of the universe. 

If electricity is all there is, then thought must 
be electrical. The vibrations being received 
by the brain cells, are conveyed throughout 



20 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

the body. Light vibrations strike upon the 
eye and enter the brain and we see by the 
brain. Sound waves enter the brain by the 
ear and we hear by the brain. Various vibra- 
tions received by the brain are transmitted 
through the nerves to the various organs of 
the body. They respond to these vibrations 
and harmony, health or disease, results. 

If the brain is attuned to receive healthful 
vibrations, the body will surely respond and 
harmony or health obtain. This is the secret 
of mental healing in all its forms that is being 
practiced in these states today, whether it be 
Mental Science, Christian Science, New 
Thought, Divine Healing, Suggestive Thera- 
peutics, or whatever; and reduces every one 
of these various systems of healing to a simple 
natural law of vibration. These healthful vi- 
brations are as free to all as the air they 
breathe and cannot be cornered by any set of 
so-called "healers" in the world. The result 
of so-called evil or malefic vibrations we see 
every day in our hospitals, asylums, jails, po- 
lice courts, etc. The reading of certain books 
and daily newspapers attunes the brain to re- 
ceive a certain kind of vibration and the results 
usually lead to the reform school and State 
prison.. What are called evil thought vibra- 
tions are as abounding in the universe as good 
thought vibrations, and if the brain is attuned 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 21 

to receive them, the resulting inharmonious 
conditions are sure to obtain. 

Colors are the result of electric vibration. 
Sir William Crookes and Gessler demonstrated 
this by their invention of vacuum tubes. By 
attaching one of these tubes to one of the poles 
of a static electric machine, or high frequency 
coil, with a low potency, a yellow light is pro- 
duced. The potency being increased red ap- 
pears. By still further increasing the potency 
to about twelve million vibrations per second, 
purple or violet rays are generated. Then 
comes the Roentgen or X-ray — a brilliant, 
greenish light, which renders opaque bodies 
transparent. Thus science in electrical discov- 
ery is rapidly revealing to us the secrets of the 
universe. 

All vibrations are co-related. For instance, 
a man has a burst of violent passion — a high 
rate of brain cell vibration — and we say he 
"sees red." This is true and he is almost sure 
to commit murder and will if the rate of vibra- 
tion be kept up in his brain cells. And unless 
you can "switch the current" — lower the vibra- 
tion — he will be plunged into a sea of color or 
intense vibration which his brain is unable 
to assimilate and we have what we term insan- 
ity. The writer firmly believes that Musical 
Vibrations which are transformed into elec- 
trical waves and transmitted to the patient, will 
ultimately be found to be the "switch" that 



22 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

shall change the potency of these vibrations in 
the insane, and restore many a hopeless entity 
to normal brain conditions. 

As another illustration of the power of 
thought vibrations take those that went forth 
when Garrison, Phillips, Sumner and others 
voiced the abolition of slavery in this country, 
which culminated in the greatest war of mod- 
ern times and developed a manhood and self- 
sacrifice seldom if ever given to the world. 
This is Immortality. These events belong to 
no one country, but to the world and are the 
heritage of humanity, and but one step in the 
evolution of the race toward the goal of perfect 
liberty, which is the knowledge of truth and 
love, and the real brotherhood of man. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 23 

CHAPTER III 
Love and Music 

Their Relation to Life. Their Influence in 
the Work of Evolution. The Power of 
Love. The Power of Music. All Emotions 
Produced by and Subject to These Two 
Forces. 

Love and music had their birth and growth 
simultaneously, and have continued their jour- 
ney side by side. 

Primeval man through passion or the pro- 
creative tendency, surrounded himself with 
offspring. Through the appeal made by the 
helplessness of his children paternal love was 
evolved. From this was evolved love of fam- 
ily, tribe, clan, and country. In all this music 
moved side by side with love. The mother 
before language was born crooned her lullaby 
to her baby, and the father imitating the birds 
pursed his lips and made similar sounds. Later 
he used hollow reeds and fashioned pipes or 
flutes. Thus music was born, becoming a uni- 
versal language, and has been involved 
throughout all the ages. Music and love are 
inseparable, and their influence upon mankind 
is unfathomable. We read a love story, or 
hear a love song, and each brings a thrill of 
emotion or vibration that stimulates, and 
brings to the body that harmony, the perfec- 
tion of which is fullness of life — health. The 



24 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

birds sing their love songs to their mates and 
these vibrations fill the woods with music. 
The humming bird with continuous accompany- 
ing melody gathers the honey from the flow- 
ers to feed its young. All music is life and 
life is love. The youth is transformed into a 
man, the maiden into a woman, by love. And 
this is a new birth or regeneration. Emerson 
says, "The passion remakes the world for the 
youth. It makes all things alive and signifi- 
cant. Nature grows conscious. Every bird 
on the bough of the tree sings now to his heart 
and soul. The trees of the forest, the waving 
grass and the peeping flowers have grown in- 
telligent." All nature breathes love, which is 
expressed in self-abnegation, dying that other 
species may live. Prof. Darwin at a meeting 
of a Scientific Society in Dublin made this 
statement, "All vegetation sees, hears, breathes 
and feels." Witness the action of the sensi- 
tive and carnivorous plants. 

We have said all organic and inorganic ex- 
istence is subject to and lives by the same 
vibratory energy of the one substance— Elec- 
tricity. Its vibrations produce "the exquisite 
tint of the rose, the velvet of the lily and the 
ethereal daintiness of the orchid. Each is but 
some trifling variation in the timbre, the tempo 
or the pitch of vibration that produces it." 

The breathing of zephyrs through the trees 
echoes the universal language of music in 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 25 

which all nature voices its thought. The purl- 
ing of the brooks, are but other notes by which 
nature sings her song of love. "All one's life 
is music if one touches the notes rightly and 
in tune." 

Musical vibrations are full of healing power. 
Their effect upon mind and body soothing and 
vitalizing beyond description, and producing 
every emotion of which we are capable. It is 
the key that will unlock for us the deep secrets 
of the universe. Its universal language en- 
ables the composer to reveal his thoughts to 
an audience, by notes, tones, rhythms, ca- 
dences, which are but different rates of vibra- 
tion. As he describes a storm, the wind wails 
through the trees, the branches sway, the rain 
patters on the leaves. Then the rush of the 
storm, the pealing thunder, the flash of light- 
nings, the rush and downpour of angry waters. 
Then comes the lull, the dying away, the burst 
of sunlight, the birds singing their songs of 
joy. We see and hear it all. It is a painting. 
It is a symphony. It is vibration. Carlisle 
says, "All deep things are songs; see deep 
enough and you see music. The heart of na- 
ture breathes everywhere music if you can 
only reach it." 

This love force or vibration, great in vol- 
ume, is like a great white light whose radiant 
energy absorbs and burns up all its opponents, 
such as hatred, dislike, malice, uncharitable- 



26 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

ness, etc., just as the sun in the solar system 
absorbs all cosmic matter (vibrations) that 
comes within its radius. This cosmic matter 
furnishing the combustion necessary to con- 
tinue the radiant energy, which for us means 
continued existence. 

The maiden in her fresh and glorious beauty, 
with rosebud tinted cheeks, the aureole of the 
sun crowning her hair, her form swaying with 
graceful mien, bursts like an apparition on the 
youth, and the refulgence of her beauty daz- 
zles him like the sunlight and blinds him to all 
else. While these intense love vibrations con- 
tinue he has no eyes, no ears for aught save 
her. He exalts her in poem and in song. He 
"protests" like Romeo and she like Juliet 
"doubts" and "doubts," these very doubts call- 
ing forth more prolerlations. The vibrations 
called love produce a condition, an emotion, 
akin to hysteria. Indeed the brain once at- 
tuned to its vibration becomes obsessed and 
all sorts of vagaries are evolved amounting 
to madness or insanity. 

The brain being attuned by some dominant 
thought immediately assumes telepathic con- 
ditions. It becomes as we say enrapport with 
this or that class of thought deposited in the 
reservoirs of the universe. 

Music is the language of love. Listening to 
some forgotten note or song, what is called 
memory is established, and thoughts are awak- 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 27 

ened we deemed were long dead. They speak 
to us in no uncertain or unfamiliar tones, and 
many a lover's quarrel of long standing has 
been healed by this sacrament of music. 

The universe voices this immortal power. 
The morning stars sing together, the brooks 
ripple their course, the skylark sings his glad 
carol as he rises in the air to greet the morn- 
ing sun, and all light and color vibrate their 
praises in the glorious landscapes they are 
ever painting on the land. The sea with its 
ceaseless vibration sings a lullaby to the tired 
brain, or in its stormy moods incites man to 
deeds of daring. All nature is music and all 
music is the language of the universe, and "the 
world is full of beauty if the heart is full of 
love." 



28 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

CHAPTER IV 

Immortality 

Is There Conscious Immortality? What is 
Immortality ? Why We Hope for Conscious- 
ness in a Future Life. How the Ancients 
Regarded a Future Life. 

Virtue alone builds pyramids. Her 
monuments shall last when Egypt's 
fall. — Young. 

In order that there should be what is spoken 
of as conscious immortality — or post-mortem 
consciousness — there must be an entity or or- 
ganism to manifest it. Consciousness is the 
resultant of the vibratory movements of cer- 
tain groupings of electrons called brain cells, 
acted on by certain other outside vibrations. 
This resultant called consciousness is the "un* 
conscious cerebration" of the scientists. There 
can no more be consciousness without brain 
cells than there can be the music of a violin 
without the violin. There must be the entity 
or personality with the brain to receive, pre- 
serve, and transmit the vibrations that are con- 
tained in the reservoir of thought in the uni- 
verse. 

All thoughts, words and deeds are preserved 
and exist as rates of vibration in the universe, 
and are open to those attuned to receive them. 
We spoke in a former chapter of the illustra- 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 29 

tion of the wireless telegraph and telephone. 
The coherer, receiver and transmitter being 
attuned, communication is established. This 
is another illustration of intelligent PURPOSE 
in the universe, and man is the mouthpiece 
of it. 

When it is seen that every thought or word 
belongs to its distinctive wave and must find 
a brain attuned to the same rate of vibration 
to receive and to voice it, the irrationality of 
endowing an intangible, substanceless, non- 
existing, so-called "spirit" with consciousness 
must be apparent to anyone. 

This is immortality, which correlates every 
thought and word of man, holding them in 
universal phonographic records, as it were, 
forming a vast reservoir from which continu- 
ously flows by electrical energy all so-called 
intelligent and other vibrations, we receiving 
those to which we are attuned. This is a 
thought that might well engage our most seri- 
ous attention, involving as it does a responsi- 
bility of no little magnitude. We may well 
pause to inquire of ourselves what are we de- 
positing in those archives of thought for re- 
distribution to ourselves, and to our poster- 
ity, to say nothing of mankind in general. 

Certain forms of vibration, such as hatred, 
malice, envy, jealousy and especially fear, are 
productive of disease, poverty, old age and 
death — all those inharmonious vibrations 



30 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

which comprise the sum of all the troubles and 
sorrows of mankind. The most productive of 
these inharmonious conditions known as sick- 
ness, poverty, old age and death, is FEAR. 
Veneration and worship of ail kinds is a form 
of fear and opens the body to every ill. 

Man through religious teaching and self- 
made creeds has evolved the idea of rewards 
and punishments for the "good" and "bad" 
deeds of this life, and as there must be a con- 
scious entity to punish and reward and a place 
in which to administer the same, a so-called 
"future life" becomes a necessity. 

What rational ground for all this? None 
whatever. The cessation of consciousness in 
what is called death, is an inevitable step in 
the inauguration and evolution of existence. 
As we have stated heretofore life and death are 
one and the same. The same unit of electric 
energy with two impulses — life and death. 
Continuous vibration. Every movement be- 
ing the evolution of some new form demon- 
strating life's continuity and electrical nature. 

Thales said (600 B. C), "All around is 
change. Everything always becoming some- 
thing else. All in motion like streams." He 
recognized the law of evolution or continuous 
vibration. Theophrastes (371 B. C.) says, 
"There is one eternal, indestructible substance 
out of which everything arises and into which 
everything again returns." 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 31 

That "eternal, indestructible substance" is 
now known to be electricity, and the inherent, 
unceasing energy of its infinite particles or 
electrons — now known to be electrical, polar, 
sexual — the explanation of all phenomena em- 
braced under the terms — life and death. Life 
and Immortality are synonymous. The pres- 
ent is eternity. The now is all there is. All 
conscious or unconscious thought vibration is 
immortal, and is recorded in the cylindrical 
records of the universe, and those having the 
attunement to those records are in possession 
of the so-called secrets of the universe; which 
are nothing more than the workings of nature's 
inevitable laws revealed and unfolded to us 
through an understanding of this great univer- 
sal substance — Electricity. The one only sub- 
stance in the universe. 

This substance, this sea of electrons, of which 
we are, and in which we live and move and 
have our being, is in constant motion even as 
the great body of water on our globe. "The 
waters of the globe are all one sea and truly 
seen their tide is one." So in this electrical 
ocean there is ebb and flow, ebb and flow, of 
etheric and atmospheric conditions. The 
movement of these tides and waves is always 
cyclical, proving their electrical nature. This 
is seen in the globule of water, in the globe 
tides, in the tornadoes, cyclone, etc. All so- 
called "destructive conditions" are due to the 



32 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

breaking of the circuit and the violent deter- 
mined effort to close it again, and are in them- 
selves constructive processes. When the cir- 
cuit is broken the destructive force is let loose 
and continues its havoc until this violently 
vibrating mass of electrons has re-formed into 
other conditions in the great electrical ocean. 

The suns, worlds, planets, stars are but va- 
ried manifestations of this vibratory electrical 
force which through millions of ages has 
evolved and rotated them into existence, its 
limitless energy forever continuing the work 
of creation or evolution. 

These worlds, suns, planets being prepared 
to generate and maintain the various forms of 
life, which by analogy must be the same on 
other planets as on ours. 

Beginning with the simplest type of organ- 
ism, the work of evolution and progress is car- 
ried on until the present race of mankind with 
its intelligence and will is produced. And 
there are much higher types in the universe 
than what is called human. All this is pro- 
duced by the action of the vibratory electrical 
force which constitutes life — which IS LIFE. 
You may call it God if it pleases you. 

Consciousness, intelligence, is but the result- 
ant of varying rates of vibration of different 
tempos. The action of the vibratory force is 
seen in the plants and flowers where the prun- 
ing and concentration of vibration into one 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 33 

stalk improves the fruit or flower. In the 
American Beauty rose many branches and 
buds are sacrificed to bring one flower to the 
fullest perfection. 

For ages this same pruning process has been 
applied to the organism known as man, in or- 
der to evolve the intelligence that has produced 
our men of genius and power, to control in 
turn the very forces that called them into ex- 
istence. By self-control man has been enabled 
to direct these vibrations, holding in check his 
varied passions which otherwise would injure 
him and hasten his dissolution. 

The vibrations known as the ether or sound 
can produce every emotion we are capable of 
displaying. We in turn control these same 
vibrations and produce music. Ruskin says, 
"All one's life is music if one touches the note 
rightly and in tune." "Light, heat, force, mo- 
tion, sound, sight, taste, color, thought, emo- 
tion all these are but different rates of vibra- 
tion." 

Color vibrations denote the passions. Yellow 
the lymphatic, red the positive and aggressive, 
blue the nervous temperament. Purple or vio- 
let are intense vibrations which usually are 
self-destructive, overthrowing the reason and 
producing insanity. These color- vibrations 
are in turn susceptible to inhibition and con- 
trol by musical vibrations of a much lower 
tempo than those of color; musical vibrations 



34 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

attaining to only thirty-two thousand (32,000) 
per second at their highest tempo, while the 
color vibrations known as violet reach twelve 
million (12,000,000) to the second. Is it the 
SONOROSITY of musical tones that equal- 
izes the vibrations of color and music? 

The vibrations of the tones of a violin have 
been known to heal the most obstinate wounds, 
and even surgical operations have been per- 
formed under the influence of musical vibra- 
tions. So potent is this force that the musical 
step of the military march has to be broken 
when crossing a bridge lest it collapse. The 
walls of Jericho are said to have collapsed 
under the vibrations produced by blowing up- 
on rams' horns in the hands of the Israelites. 
Windows have been broken by the vibratory 
tones of an organ. 

The varying forms of so-called matter are 
but varying rates of vibration, ready to be 
acted upon and dissolved by other rates. The 
same force that tears down builds up. Death 
is only another rate of vibration set up by this 
Eternal Life. Post-mortem consciousness is 
unscientific and ridiculous. Organic life gives 
off electrons, that unite and form a new or- 
ganism, and the resulting embryo is of like 
organism, perpetuating its kind from genera- 
tion to generation. As this is continuous and 
never ceasing, it must be what is meant by 
Immortality. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 35 

CHAPTER V 

The Sun 

Its Relation to Planetary Life. What is Radi- 
ant Energy? Why the Ancients Wor- 
shipped the Sun. The Parsees the Present 
Sun Worshippers. 

It is supposed to be a figure of speech, a 
mere bit of symbolism to call the sun mascu- 
line and the earth feminine. To call the earth 
a woman. To state that woman was made 
from man, etc. But when it is understood that 
sex is nothing but polarity, that male and 
female, masculine and feminine and positive 
and negative are synonymous terms, we begin 
to understand the truly scientific nature of 
these expressions. They are purely electrical 
terms. This sex or polarity is universal. The 
Macrocosm and the Microcosm are the same. 
The Universe is not a Di-verse. Individuality 
is not di-viduality. Every organism in the 
universe is thoroughly bi-polar or bi-sexual, 
manifesting the eternal nature of its ultimate 
component electrons. 

The writer once saw hundreds of children 
under a common impulse come swarming, 
dancing, from every quarter of a great city to a 
common meeting place. As they rushed to- 
gether en masse their individual movements 
continued until out of the marching and coun- 
ter-marching, the shifting, changing, rearrang- 



36 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

ing, re-adjusting there was evolved before his 
eyes the flag of this nation with its glorious 
stripes and stars composed of human boys and 
girls. 

We have stated that ether, air, fire, water, 
earth, are but masses of infinitesimally small 
particles— called electrons — of the one prime- 
val, universal substance, living their life of at- 
traction and repulsion, embrace and separa- 
tion, forever whirling in their eternal "May- 
pole dance." Rushing together in a mad em- 
brace, then darting away to seek some other 
partner. Weaving in and out, in and out, 
around about, back and forth, to and fro. This 
dance is called Creation — Evolution. It is an 
eternal Brocken — an eternal Nachtspiel. 

The sun is but one great mass of these 
whirling, vibrating, dancing electrons. As 
varying numbers of these rush off and regroup 
themselves, other planets are "born" or 
evolved. All depend upon the larger or par- 
ent mass from which they parted. Our earth 
is but one of these children of the sun.. The 
earth is a woman, a beautiful woman, forever 
young, forever fair. The sun is her father. 

The sun is the primary source of the variety 
of forms of life on this earth. While the elec- 
trical energy, or positive and negative impulse 
of the electrons of atomic matter, constitute 
the eternal force or energy called Life, only 
by the radiant energy of the sun in our sys- 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 37 

tern, could we have the planets — of which our 
earth is one — and the varied forms of activity 
evolved and maintained thereon. Our earth 
could no more produce these higher forms of 
activity called mineral, vegetable, animal, man, 

— all biological activities without the sun, 

than the female could produce offspring with- 
out the male. The sun is positive, the earth 
negative. The sun's vibrations reach our 
earth in about eight minutes and acting upon 
its atmosphere, it finds a resistance or polarity 
out of which is evolved light, heat and moist- 
ure. 

Every molecule of our body is rotated into 
form and continues its activities by the radiant 
energy of the sun. 

Here again we see there can be no death. 
Every atom in the universe is living, pulsating, 
vibrating electric energy. 

The sun is like a great dynamo, rotating 
every planetary body into form and position, 
and through its continued radio-activity car- 
rying on the further processes of creation 
called the evolution of sentient life. It is 
often asked, "Are other worlds inhabited by 
sentient beings ?" There can be no reason for 
supposing otherwise. Given atmospheres, and 
the radiant energy of the sun or suns, must by 
analogy evolve like results on other planets. 

We do not wonder the ancients worshipped 
the sun. They regarded it as the source or 



38 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

author of their being — their Creator. The 
theologian calls his creator God. But the He- 
brew word for God is Elohim — creative forces. 
John says, "The word was God." The psalm- 
ist says, "Day unto day uttereth speech." What 
is speech but vibration? The sun is the source 
of all vibration in the solar system. It has 
created this earth and all its inhabitants. All 
forms of life on this planet, all activities, are 
but the radiant ener^yv of the sun. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 39 

CHAPTER VI 
Fear 

The Great Curse of Humanity. The Only 
Devil. Its Insidious Claims. Its Effect on 
Life. 

"The thing that I feared hath come 
upon me," — Job. 

Through fear the human race has been con- 
verted into cowards and slaves. 

In a former chapter we have suggested the 
origin or birth of this demon with its subse- 
quent evolution of the ideas of good and evil, 
rewards and punishments, religions, right and 
wrong, etc. — Side by side with the above was 
the evolution of the conscience, which in turn 
became the greatest producer of fear known to 
the human race. The conscience, that Shakes- 
peare says "doth make cowards of us all." A 
modern teacher says "Conscience is the jaw 
of morality. It has spread far outside the 
Christian or any other religion and become an 
essential factor of modern civilization. Con- 
science is the most depressing element in hu- 
man existence. Its entire business is to re- 
duce spirit. Every inch of its energy is laid 
out against health. It taxes vitality. It claws 
with shame. It bites with disgrace. It mur- 
ders with morbidness, both body and mind. 
It manufactures right and wrong. It dis- 



40 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

charges poison or stimulant into the blood and 
nerves. . . It has scared the race into trembling 
lest it leave them. It has made cowards of 
us all." 

In man's effort to escape the thralldom of 
these twin curses, — fear and conscience— 
which so often drives humanity to self-destruc- 
tion or loss of reason, and feeling his helpless- 
ness against these demons, he sought a means 
of propitiating them, and so constructed a sys- 
tem of religious belief. Believing that his 
Gods must be placated for his fancied trans- 
gressions, a form of worship was evolved, with 
ceremonies involving sacrifice of blood, gifts 
of money, and treasure for building magnifi- 
cent temples, churches, abbeys and monaster- 
ies. Lavishing billions of dollars upon their 
architecture and art. All these were efforts to 
overcome fear, and appease a conscience, which 
was evolved through the influence of the 
shadow-world and the folk-lore of primitive 
man upon the progenitors of the race. 

We have only to vibrate the unused cells of 
the brain to bring forth primitive savagery. 
Take the action of a mob — let a vibratory wave 
of passion be set up in the unused cells of the 
brain and the entity knows no law but primi- 
tive force. Fear is for the time forgotten in 
the lust for blood. This is the explanation of 
the so-called bravery of the soldier in time of 
battle. Although fear dominates him before 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 41 

the clash of arms is reached, yet the moment 
he meets his antagonist the primitive lust for 
blood overcomes his fear and he becomes once 
more a primeval savage and fights to the death. 
The rationale of this is, that environment and 
mode of thought has put in vibration and at- 
tuned certain cells of the brain, by which he 
establishes communication with some reservoir 
of primitive savage vibration in the universe, 
and all the wild impulses of primeval instinct 
rush into and dominate him. 

The forgotten "vices" of our ancestors, ap- 
parently repeated from generation to genera- 
tion, mean no more than this, as we have sug- 
gested heretofore; environment and its en- 
gendered mode of thought simply fitting the 
brain as a receiver for the reception of specific 
vibrations. We treat as criminals those who 
should be really treated for disease. We are 
responsible for the slum conditions in our cities 
and country which set up the brain attunement 
that calls forth these vibrations of ancestral 
vices. This is HOW the slums breed vice and 
crime. And it is in this direction we should 
put forth our efforts to reform the criminal. 
Are we not responsible for our criminals? We 
most assuredly are. We are responsible for 
these slum conditions and environments which 
create and bring into play these specific brain 
cells and cell vibrations. We say "Natural 
born criminals." Not always. They are made 



42 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

so by environment. If the money spent in the 
effort to reform the vicious and criminal was 
applied to cleansing the slums and changing 
man's environment, it would greatly reduce 
the necessity for jails, reform schools and asy- 
lums. We should enact laws to enable us to 
begin with the child in the public schools — 
compulsory if necessary. Not only educating, 
but seeing that they were properly clothed and 
housed and fed, and removed from their vicious 
surroundings, parents or guardians. In fact, 
we are the real criminals who permit such a 
thing as a crime producing slum or a "poor 
quarter." The state can easily afford to do 
this in order to do away with the so-called 
vicious element or criminal class. 

The present progress of invention in labor- 
saving devices call for a greater intelligence 
than the handling of the pick and the shovel, 
and this is being evolved ; and this great living 
vibratory energy or force which created man 
and evolved his intellect and his will, man has 
in turn harnessed for his use, reducing the 
necessity for excessive manual labor; and he 
will have more time for the arts and sciences. 
The "man with the hoe," will become the man 
with the electric plow and cultivator, and in- 
stead of hard, laborious work, these wonderful 
electric inventions will eventually reduce all 
labor to mild recreation and enjoyment. This 
wonderful electric force has now become a 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 43 

servant and is willing and eager to give its 
restless energy to man. It is the power that 
Tennyson says is "closer to you than breath- 
ing, nearer than hands and feet." It is your 
universal father ready to give whatsoever you 
ask; but man must study to know this power, 
and learn its natural movements in order to 
come into the full benefit of his rightful heri- 
tage of this primal force by which he was 
evolved into conscious existence. 

The blight of fear has retarded the human 
race from coming into its heritage of knowl- 
edge concerning this primal substance and 
force of the universe — Electricity. Every ef- 
fort of science to explain phenomena has been 
frowned upon and opposed by theology, which 
is the child of fear and conscience. Man has 
been kept in swaddling clothes which have 
prevented his growth to maturity. But thanks 
to the change of nurses during the recent cen- 
turies his clothes have been changed so fre- 
quently that he has had an opportunity to grow 
lusty, and all the efforts of nurses to keep him 
in leading-strings today are unavailing. He is 
outgrowing fear and superstition that has so 
long strangled science. And science is de- 
stroying fear by its revelations of the workings 
of natural law, which in the field of electrica] 
discovery is making its most rapid strides. 



44 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

CHAPTER VII 

Death 

Its Relation to Life. Its Immortality. Its 
loving purpose. Its Relation to Evolution. 

"To die, to sleep, — To sleep! per- 
chance to dream! ay there's the 
rub." — Shakespeare. 

In preceding chapters I have so frequently 
made the statement that life and death are one 
and the same, that it seems almost superfluous 
to say another word on the subject. But I am 
willing, even at the risk of seeming pedantic, 
to re-state the argument, which is not only 
simple and easy of comprehension, but at the 
same time both scientific and rational. 

Without desiring to enter upon the realm of 
metaphysics in this book, it will be sufficient 
to say that we use the term Life in its fullest 
sense, and not in the restricted one of con- 
sciousness. Consciousness itself being but 
one expression of life. 

Two Irishmen walking along a road came 
upon a turtle. It had been decapitated and 
its head lay some distance away from its body. 
"Begorra," says Pat, "he's dead sure enough. 
His head's cut off." Mike picked up a stick 
and punched the turtle's feet, who immediately 
withdrew them inside his shell. "No," says he, 
"he's aloive. See him move." "You're a fool 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 45 

Mike," says Pat. "He's dead I tell you. Don't 
you see his head's cut off." "He's aloive," 
said Mike, "you can see him move." The ar- 
gument became heated, Mike insisting that a 
dead turtle couldn't move, and Pat being equal- 
ly insistent that no turtle with his head cut off 
could be alive. The matter was about to be 
referred to the Irishman's court of last resort, 
when a Dutchman, passing along, an armis- 
tice was established, and the matter referred 
to him for decision. The Dutchman examined 
the turtle and discovered it had been killed in 
a supposedly most effective manner by having 
its head cut off. Mike's test with the stick, 
however, revealed the ability on the part of 
the turtle for pretty lively activity. He then 
arose and delivered himself, "Gentlemen, dot 
turtle iss dead all right, — but it don't know 
it." 

Every area of being, — of the universe, is 
eternally alive. It doesn't always KNOW it. 

We repeat, there is one — can be but one — 
Be-ing. This being is not mind, nor its prod- 
uct matter. Ether is only a refined form of 
matter. Mind is adjudged to be a still more 
refined form of that same matter. But being 
is Substance. You may call it Spirit (or mean- 
ing) or you may call it God. Paul called it 
Faith, and said "by it and of it the worlds were 
made." 

We call it Electricity. Every infinitesimal 



46 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

electron of this substance, as we have stated, 
is by-polar or sexual. Attracting and repel- 
ling, embracing and separating. This eternal, 
inherent or natural law of their being is Life, 
—energy, activity. The resultant of these ac- 
tivities : — the worlds and all that in them is. 

Suppose a great mass of type moved by an 
inherent, automatic, continuous impulse. Its 
integral component letters forever arranging 
themselves into words, phrases, sentences, etc. 
For illustration: The letters E-V-I-L create 
the word Evil. Rearrange the same letters 
and your word Evil disappears and the word 
L-I-V-E, Live, appears, or is born, created, 
evolved, whatever. The energy, the auto-ac- 
tivity would be one and the same. The dis- 
integration and disappearance of one word, and 
the re-adjustment of letters and appearance or 
creation of another word being equally the re- 
sultant of the same letters, with their same 
inherent energy and impulse. You might call 
one part of the process Creation and another 
part Destruction, but the process is one and 
continuous. Your division is merely hypo- 
thetical, or assumed. What is destroyed? 
The letters remain, and their inherent energy 
or impulse remains — all there was at any 
time. 

The integral, component particles — electrons 
—of the one only eternal substance, are the let- 
ters comprising the universe. Their inherent. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY M 

automatic, eternal energy, activity — Life — for- 
ever spelling out words and sentences, etc., 
that go to make up the Book of Life. They 
arrange themselves as earthquake or pesti- 
lence, famine, murder, birth, disease, old age, 
death, sunshine, flowers, music, painting, 
sculpture, art, laughter, tears, whatever. What 
are these terms but names for the varied activ- 
ities of life? Life is all there is. What is called 
death is equally life. Life and death are the 
two impulses of this one universal force. 

In certain of its phenomena, now classified 
as electrical, this dual impulse is noted and its 
action is called "closing the circuit" and 
"breaking the circuit." This same dual im- 
pulse or tendency to embrace and separate — 
embrace and separate — obtains throughout the 
entire cosmos, proving the universality of elec- 
trical action. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, 
sound, sensation, light, form, color, smell, food, 
thought are all known to be modes of motion 
— rates of vibration. Motion of what? Rate 
of vibration of what? — Of the infinite, integral, 
component electrons of the one universal sub- 
stance. 

All movement, or action, or impulse, is in a 
straight line, and in a circle. The movement 
in a straight line is the repulsion, the depart- 
ure, the separation. Motion in a circle is the 
attraction, the return, the embrace. This is 
polarity. This is sex. This is Eternal Life. 



48 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

This is Eternal Death. The Two Immortals 
— or the One (bi-polar, bi-sexual) Immortal. 

We repeat, all the substance there is is Elec- 
tricity. All the force there is, therefore, is 
electrical. There being but one substance— t 
synthetic being — all force must be electrical. 
This electrical force is a unit, but has two im- 
pulses, positive and negative, attraction and 
repulsion. 

All organic forms contains these impulses. 
For illustration, take a human entity. The 
positive we call man, the negative woman. 
Through the embrace of certain electrons 
thrown off from the organism of each (physio- 
logically termed the spermatozoa of the male 
and the fecundating fluid of the female), there 
is estabished the basis of a future organism for 
manifesting consciousness and conscious or in- 
telligent activity. A journey is begun. Life 
and death are one and move side by side. Their 
eternal impulse ever active. If what is called 
harmony or health prevails a vigorous entity is 
evolved and continued. When the negative 
tendency or inharmony prevails in this con- 
tinued struggle for supremacy, beyond a cer- 
tain limit, the organism becomes de-harmon- 
ized, dis-eased, disabled, unconscious, disinte- 
grated. Such is this restless energy we call 
life. The circuit completed, life and death (the 
positive and negative impulse), move together 
side by side, but the tendency to break the cir- 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 49 

cuit — as well as to close the circuit — always 
obtains. When this occurs there is a re-adjust- 
ment of conditions, out of which new forms of 
life appear. 

There can be no antagonism in a unit. 
There is only a restless energy and impulse to 
effect changes; to continue the work of crea- 
tion or evolution. I want my readers to recog- 
nize death as a friend, and not as so many re- 
gard him, an enemy. He has been and is our 
constant companion — he is ourself, and is en- 
titled to fuller and kinder recognition. We 
scandalize death and caricature and abuse him, 
not realizing that we are abusing ourselves. 
When the tired organism craves only rest, how 
readily we should welcome his loving em- 
brace. We cannot love life without loving 
death, as they are one and inseparable, being 
the unit — which is all there is. What is true 
of this ceaseless energy or electrical impulse 
as manifested in organic forms, is also true 
in inorganic forms. It generates all vegetables, 
and fruits and flowers, giving them beauty and 
fragrance and flavor. And we note the same 
spherical growth in all, demonstrating the 
electrical nature of all creation. Each cell is 
rotated into form by this dual impulse. We 
see the same spherical formation in our for- 
ests. 

The same "dissolution" or change takes place 
in in-organic as in organic life. As the "speck" 



50 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

or decayed spot appears on the apple we know 
the circuit has been broken and the negative 
tendency becoming the stronger. Everywhere, 
everything is the circle, and everywhere the 
tendency to break that circle or circuit. In the 
celestial bodies called worlds, it is the same as 
in the flower. Astronomers agree that there 
is an ultimate limit to the so-called "life" of 
all planetary bodies. This is true. They 
have been evolved and devolved for aeons and 
aeons of time. And the eternal electrical im- 
pulse and energy will continue its sport of cre- 
ation and of destruction throughout the ages 
yet to be. 

Life is. Without beginning — without dura- 
tion — ^without ending. Such is the meaning of 
the word Eternity. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 51 

CHAPTER VIII 
Healing 

Mental Therapeutics or Healing Suggestions. 
Christian Science. Mental Science. Faith 
Healing, Etc. 

As stated in a former chapter, every system 
of so-called mental healing being practiced in 
these States or elsewhere today, whether it 
calls itself Christian Science, Mental Science, 
Divine Healing, New Thought, Suggestive 
Therapeutics, or whatever, is but an effort — 
with more or less understanding — to utilize 
the law of electric vibration. 

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health/' 
page 292, "Electricity is not a vital fluid, but 
the least material form of illusive conscious- 
ness." "Electricity is the sharp surplus of 
materiality which counterfeits the true essence 
of spiritual truth." (So simple, isn't it?) "The 
vapid fury of mortal mind expressed in earth- 
quakes, wind, waves, lightning, fire and bestial 
ferocity shows the so-called mind to be self- 
destructive." 

There is one synthetical substance, or truth, 
in the universe. You may name it to suit 
yourself. It will smell just as sweet and act 
just the same under whatever name you may 
give it. It has a habit of remaining just what 
it is yesterday, today and forever. We call it 



52 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

Electricity. It is the one mind, the one sub- 
stance, the all and in all. From it is evolved 
matter in all its various forms. The unit of all 
force is electrical; the two impulses of which 
account for the variety of forms in which it 
manifests itself. It creates, preserves, de- 
stroys, and the various manifestations, such as 
earthquake, floods, fire, lightening are but 
results of these two impulses, and simply show 
the absence of any intelligent PURPOSE 
whatever; and forces us to see that there can 
be no such thing as a Supreme Being — or 
supreme intelligence in the universe. That 
this great omnipresent energy which evolved 
the meaningless phrases and sentences of Mrs. 
Eddys "Christian Science" was acting neither 
less nor more "intelligently" than when it pro- 
duced a Beethoven sonata or a Dante's In- 
ferno. 

Man seems to have been able to a certain ex- 
tent to control this force and harness it to his 
use, and has materially lessened its destruc- 
tive tendency by devices such as the lighten- 
ing-rod and various insulating methods. This 
is an evidence of intelligent purpose evolved by 
the vibratory forces of this intelligent sub- 
stance. 

Man has subjected this force to his usage 
upon his own organism and the results are as- 
tounding. Every day some new application is 
being made. In the field of Electro-Thera- 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 53 

peutics there are so many new developments, 
so many wondrous actions on various diseases 
that the medical profession has to constantly 
revise its text books, in order to keep step 
with this stately energy that is marching on 
to disclose to those attuned to receive them 
the great secrets of nature. 

We have the phonograph, which deposits 
the vibrations of the human voice — or any 
other vibration, upon the wax cylinder, which 
can be preserved almost indefinitely and re- 
produced at will. From whence came the vi- 
bratory impulse or suggestion that invented 
the phonograph? The within is as the with- 
out. The above is as the below. The ma- 
crocosm is as the microcosm. Is there not in 
the laboratory of the universe some cyclical or 
cylindrical formation (as all electric force — 
which is all the force there is — is spherical) 
that receives, and preserves, and reproduces 
the impressions of all thoughts, words and 
deeds, the brain specifically attuned receiving 
its specific vibration, or thought? Does it re- 
quire any great effort to grasp the thought that 
the electrical (mental, thought) forces or vi- 
brations of the universe can be utilized by us, 
to act on the cells of the brain and convey to 
the body or its various organs through the 
nerves, our commands to cast out all inhar- 
monious vibration, and to refuse to entertain 
any but harmonious or healthful suggestions. 



54 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

"Whatsoever a man thinketh, he is." We 
repeat, these so-called healthful vibrations are 
as free to all as the air they breathe and can- 
not be corralled by any set of healers. This is 
not said to discredit any system of healing, for 
all are with more or less understanding using 
the same principle, and with accordingly vary- 
ing degrees of success. But it is said to de- 
stroy and nullify any claim of exclusive ability. 

To attune yourself to receive these health- 
giving or harmony-producing vibrations be 
alone. Assume any comfortable position. Let 
the body relax and the mind become passive. 
All speech is electrical in its vibratory action. 
Use these words: 

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM 
GOD. 

You may be afraid at first to say these 
words. This is all the more reason why you 
should say them. There is nothing so de- 
harmonizing and de-vitalizing as fear. Read 
the chapter in this book on "Fear" again, and 
cast it out of you forever. 

Listen — no person ever died saying, "Be 
Still and Know That I Am God." 

The repetition of these words will gradu- 
ally attune the brain to receive the most 
health-giving, vitalizing vibrations in the uni- 
verse. These, acting on the cells of the brain 
are conveyed throughout the entire body by 
the nerves. The lungs, the liver, the stomach 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 55 



-all — will gradually receive these vitalizing, 



curative thought vibrations, and respond to 
them. 

Sometimes 'these inharmonious conditions 
seem persistent and hard to overcome, and 
patience and perseverance in repetition may be 
necessary. But persevere and you cannot fail 
to win out. It is as certain as that friction 
will produce lire, and that heat will dissolve 
ice. Don't whine. Don't beg. Don't pray. 
Command, as is your right and privilege, as 
a unit of this mighty electric force which is 
life and health. It's up to you. All the life 
and health of the universe is yours if you 
will. Permanent, abiding, continuous at- 
tunement to the infinite ocean of force, is to 
continue the integrity of the organism you call 
your — Self. 

Radium 

Note.— The discovery of radium opened up 
a field of experiment and investigation that 
has greatly confirmed in the scientific mind the 
belief that all action is electrical and that in 
this direction will be found the solution of all 
biological problems. 

It is now thought by scientists that radium 
is the source of life, if not the so-called AURA 
of life itself. If this were true, it would only 
mean that radium is the fundamental, basic, 
primeval substance of the universe, which we 



56 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

have termed Electricity. . . It is known to be 
electrical in its action, giving off light, heat 
and radiant energy. It seems to be self-ex- 
istent, or self-renewing, suffering no apparent 
diminution of its force or energy. 

One thing is certain, Electricity is Life, and 
in the eternally inherent, automatic impulse of 
its individual electrons will be found the solu- 
tion of all phenomena. In radium or radio- 
activity science may be getting down to "bed- 
rock." At any rate, it is hot on the trail that 
will lead to the discovery of the truth we are 
announcing, viz.: that there is but one sub- 
stance — Electricity, whose eternal, infinite ex- 
pression is Life. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 57 

CHAPTER IX 

Resume and Conclusion 

In the foregoing chapters I have endeavored 
to explain the great primeval force of life — 
Electricity. The task is an almost impossible 
one, for, while I know that my premises and 
deductions are correct, it is more than difficult 
by words and phrases and sentences to convey 
to the reader my deep conviction of the cor- 
rectness of the theory introduced in these 
pages. 

Some of the greatest scientists in the world 
are experimenting with this vital force, and 
almost daily the newspapers contain accounts 
of the phenomenal results that are attending 
their efforts. 

Recently in Copenhagen a certain journal- 
ist had his portrait "photographed by elec- 
tricity." Copies were distributed throughout 
the city he was about to visit with instructions 
that he be arrested on sight. This was ef- 
fected immediately upon his arrival there. 

An important recent discovery is an elec- 
tric lamp which can dissipate fog. It produces 
a clear, greenish, penetrating light like moon- 
light. It gives a great illuminating power* 
without heat something like the X-ray. 

Recently, aerograms were received in Hono- 
lulu and San Francisco from Japan, proving 



58 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

that the ethereal electrons are sure conductors 
throughout the cosmos. Entering, as this 
untiring energy does, into our every day life, 
it is not difficult for us to see that — Life is — 
and that Electricity is the only substance, out 
of whose revelations we are growing into 
greater understanding of the forces and work- 
ings of nature. These forces — -variations and 
modifications of the one force — Electrical en- 
ergy — have ever BEEN ; but it has taken mil- 
lions of ages and the evolution and develop- 
ment of man's intelligence to even grasp the 
A, B, C of this almighty power. The future 
has in store discoveries of such magnitude and 
of such vast importance to the human race in 
this field of electrical phenomena that we may 
well exclaim, as did the psalmist, "such knowl- 
edge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I can- 
not attain unto it." 

All natural law is but some form of electrical 
energy by which is evolved all the various 
manifestations of this wonder-working sub- 
stance. Atmospheres, ether, air, fire, water, 
earth, stars, planets, suns, worlds, man, are but 
combinations and vibrations of the integral 
particles or electrons of this one substance. 
Mountain and star-mist, consciousness, intelli- 
gence, savage, Sage, Sufi, all objective and 
subjective (organic and inorganic) entities, 
are but the infinite manifestations of this uni- 
versal substance. 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 59 

The X-ray is but an intense display pro- 
duced by the vibration of trillions of these 
electrons. All that is called mind and all that 
is called matter, is but an expression of this 
one universal substance. In its eternal rest- 
less energy it creates, preserves, destroys, in- 
numerable forms of mind and matter. This is 
eternal life. This is eternal intelligence. And 
"Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto 
night showeth knowledge." 

A recent author on "Individualism and the 
vibratory energy" says, "Spirit and matter are 
one and the same vibratory force; and mind 
and matter are one and not distinct sub- 
stances." 

Since commencing to write these lines the 
author has found a number of writers whose 
works have been of great help to him, and 
served to confirm him in his theory. 

The attunement of the brain cells to varying 
rates of vibration in the universe, brings all 
things to you on the principle of the wireless 
telegraph. "All things are yours," was the 
announcement of the Master of the Christian 
system. This is scientifically true. The uni- 
verse is at your disposal and you can get it. 
Not through sorrow, and toil and labor, but in 
the same way that trees and flowers get it — 
inspirationally. 

Telepathy, which is attracting wide-spread 
notice at the present time, is as scientific as 



60 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

telegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are 
investigating its claims through "spiritual me- 
diums," though there are few who accept the 
latter's claims, as in such a field it would be 
impossible to prevent impostors from preying 
upon the ignorant and credulous. There are 
honest mediums. In fact, every human entity 
is a "medium," receiving and transmitting, re- 
ceiving and transmitting continually. 

There are some so accutely attuned by en- 
vironment and habit of thought, to the uni- 
verse of thought, that they receive communi- 
cations beyond their fellows. These are poets, 
artists, musicians, inventors, etc.. The thoughts 
of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE to- 
day. You may know all they knew if you can 
attune yourself to such a rate of vibration as 
to establish the proper connection. This is a 
plain, every-day, scientific, matter-of-fact ex- 
planation of all modern "spiritualistic com- 
munications." There should be no more mys- 
tery or superstition, or spiritual clap-trap about 
it than there is about wireless telegraphy. 

There are persons who can readily attune 
themselves to the vibrations of another and 
"read the thoughts" — unconscious as well as 
conscious — of individuals composing an entire 
audience. With many this is easily accom- 
plished through personal contact. Some years 
ago the writer of these pages was well ac- 
quainted with Washington Irving Bishop, the 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 61 

great "mind reader," who since died, or was 
murdered by doctors in New York, who dis- 
sected his brain while he was in a cataleptic 
condition, they supposing him dead. One of 
his performances was to have some stranger 
take a bank-note, read the number on it and 
place it in a safe. During this time Bishop 
was at some distance away heavily blindfolded. 
When all was ready, he would take this man's 
hand and after a short interval give the num- 
ber on the bank-note, which was invariably 
found to be correct. I questioned him very 
closely on this performance, which I witnessed 
frequently. He said as soon as he placed his 
fingers on the wrist of the man who placed the 
note, the number would come to him without 
difficulty. He claimed that it was telepathy or 
clairvoyance. As a matter of fact, it was sim- 
ply attunement to the mind of the man who 
knew the number, and, as in the action of the 
wireless telegraph, the two brains being simi- 
larly attuned, the message was sent and re- 
ceived. There are many today to whom this 
would be a mere kindergarten performance. 
You perhaps did not know that every time you 
shake hands you run the risk of giving away 
your inmost secrets. I am prepared to tell 
you that this is true. "There is nothing hid- 
den but it shall be revealed, and there is noth- 
ing secret but it shall be made known." 

We receive impressions of impending dis- 



62 THE SECRET OF LIFE, 

aster which we regard as "supernatural." Once 
for all let me say there is nothing supernatural. 
A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of 
your superstitions and destroy your fears. 
Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters 
or telegrams. The impending disaster vibra- 
tions often reach us long before the actual 
occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of 
lightening, or the flash of the powder, before 
we hear the thunder or the report of the 
cannon. 

All these things are but movements of the 
electrons of the universe, carrying out the nat- 
ural law of their being, which is electrical 
impulse. 

Prof. Dolbear says, "Molecules which are a 
combination of atoms, are known to have their 
constant state of vibrations and from this and 
the fact of their perfect transparency, they can 
no more be seen than the air. They are so 
minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, 
that no one can hope to see them or learn 
their characteristic properties." 

Observation and study of the phenomena of 
electrical energy reveal to us the nature of 
that substance, which we are, and with which 
we have to do. The fundamental, inevitable, 
never-varying law of polarity — pushing and 
pulling — or positive and negative action. In 
creation, throughout all experience, this is 
seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and 



DEATH AND IMMORTALITY 63 

left, up and down, sweet and sour, east and 
west, north and south, good and bad, right and 
wrong, man and woman, attraction and repul- 
sion — the so-called "pairs of opposites," — Sex 
everywhere. Is it difficult to see by analogy 
and deduction that polarity is universal. That 
all phenomena are electrical phenomena. That 
birth, and growth, disease and disaster, de- 
cline and death are all electrical phenomena, 
and that there is but one synthetic substance — 
ELECTRICITY. 

* The germ, the embryo, the child, 
The foolish boy, the man, 
Are onward steps from nothingness 
In God's progressive plan. 

Forever onward is the march — 

From beastly hoof to hand — 
From savage to the seer and sage — 

From Saurian types to man; 
From man to angel — limitless 

As are the starry spheres, 
Progression hath not halt nor bound 

In God's eternal years! 

From darkest cloud the lightning flash — 

From nothing — life Divine, 
From gloom to glory is the law 

The unvarying design. 
A world of good invites our eyes 



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And charms the willing mind — 
But he who only misery finds 
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Of beauty, — and the truth — 
The deathless power of Love Divine 

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